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Hyperborea
@hyperborea228.bsky.social
24 (He/Him), artist and watcher of many things.
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We're hosting an emergency fundraiser to help fund a kidney procedure, this account is ran by someone in the US and is currently uninsured and we need support. Currently we're $14.7k away from meeting our goal and avoiding medical debt, any bit helps

gofund.me/16ef32cb1
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Just called again today, and managed to get a complaint ticket number to reference tomorrow! Let's get this bread!
#SaveSpeech

The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
November 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Thread on the timeline of events regarding iiSU developer UsagiShade's transphobic remarks because his team keeps ignoring me lol 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Just did my calls! Let's really hammer them when they thought we'd get tired!
#SaveSpeech

The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
November 26, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Mass surveillance needs to go
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.

Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.

What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Keep calling
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.

What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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If you haven’t already done so, now’s the time to call your reps and tell them to OPPOSE all of these bills! None of them are designed to protect children - not the App Store Accountability Act, not Sammy’s Law, not the SCREEN Act, and definitely not the amended KOSA!
#SaveSpeech

the Energy and Commerce Commission are having a hearing on Dec 2nd to look at a whole swatch of legislation claiming it will "protect children. We have a full list of the bills that will be present, and it includes bills like KOSA, Sammy's Law, App Store Accountability Act and more!
Chairmen Guthrie and Bilirakis Announce Legislative Hearing on Protections for Children and Teens Online
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
energycommerce.house.gov
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.

What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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iisu hype audio representation
November 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Keep making calls!

This whole weekend from the 27th to monday the 1st needs to have Visa and Mastercard SWAMPED

We need to send the message that we will fuck with their bottom dollar unless they quit targetting adult content creators and sex workers!
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.

What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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🇪🇺Misleading headlines: #chatcontrol is not dead, it is being privatized! 🚨

EU governments voted today for:
🔍 Warrantless mass surveillance
🆔 Mandatory ID for everyone (End of anonymity)
🚫 Digital house arrest for teens

The fight continues! 👇 […]

[Original post on digitalcourage.social]
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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this week indie studio santa ragione announced that it's on the verge of closure after steam blocked the release of its upcoming provocative art game, horses. valve, despite all of its algorithms and purposefully vague policyspeak, is once again telling us exactly where it stands
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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#SaveSpeech

The European Council has agreed on a version of Chat Control that it wishes to push forward in 2026.

This version contains "voluntary" mass scanning, mandatory universal age checks, and isolating minors from apps.

Chat Control still needs to be fought.

CALL YOUR MPs/MEPs!
Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure...
www.patrick-breyer.de
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Hey y'all. It's Wednesday, the middle of the week basicaly. Have you done your calls? This season right now, later norvember/december is prime time to call banks, payment processors, paypal, stripe and even your representatives if you are in the US.

You can't let them censor everything.
#SaveSpeech

The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
November 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.

What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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So just to be clear, this game isn't allowed but the Infowars game is.

We can be flooded in slop that belongs in the pits of the Google Play store, but artsy indie games are where Valve draws the line.
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Next week the House E&C Committee is looking to run something of a shock and awe campaign, debating at least 19 bills that they say are related to "protecting kids online." Most of which are actually about censorship and control. Don't buy the framing. It's always the same damn thing.
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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We should absolutely keep pressure up through the entire month of december as well, but I think the Black Friday to Cyber Monday weekend (27th-1st) is when everyone should be really PUSHING themselves to call as often as you are able to handle
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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while i stress that it is a marathon not a race, i think this is an opportunity where we DO need to treat it like a sprint, temporarily.

settle back into your marathon routine afterwards, but during Black Friday weekend, you SHOULD be sprinting if possible.
November 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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there's an infographic here with contact info for Visa and Mastercard's call centers!
#SaveSpeech

The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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#SaveSpeech

the Energy and Commerce Commission are having a hearing on Dec 2nd to look at a whole swatch of legislation claiming it will "protect children. We have a full list of the bills that will be present, and it includes bills like KOSA, Sammy's Law, App Store Accountability Act and more!
Chairmen Guthrie and Bilirakis Announce Legislative Hearing on Protections for Children and Teens Online
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
energycommerce.house.gov
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Thurs
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

If there are five days to call Mastercard + Visa, THESE ARE YOUR FIVE DAYS

THANKSGIVING
BLACK FRIDAY
CYBER MONDAY

HIT THOSE PHONE LINES
#SaveSpeech

with Black Friday being this Friday the 28th, this is the time to maximize the impact we can have via call campaigns

If you plan to participate in this call campaign, imo you should heavily prioritize calling Visa/MC as heavily as possible between the 27th and the 1st of dec
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
Already seeing folks say, "Well, HORSES isn't YUCKY PORN like other games are, so..." which is super frustrating.

Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.

Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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if youre calling paypros and looking for a talking point to use as a jumping off point, this is a great angle to go for!

alongside just wasting their time, hammer the idea that their actions are LOSING them money!
I know it's more about clogging their phone lines but I also feel like telling them their stupid policies might prevent (or HAVE prevented) you from getting certain Black Friday deals and that you feel forced to seek other payment methods MIGHT be a good angle for this point in time specifically
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM